Your appeal for service connection for a right leg disorder has been dismissed as the Board's decision denying your petition to reopen the claim is final.
The deciding factor: The Board found that new evidence was submitted but not material, thus denying the reopening of the previously denied claim.
- Claimed conditions
- shortening of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 28, 2022
- Citation
- 22018344
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining VA treatment records and arranging for a VA examination to address the Veteran's claims.
- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining a medical opinion regarding the Veteran's right lower extremity shortening and his lumbar spine disability. The Veteran is seeking an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for his lumbosacral strain with disc degeneration.
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